The Mountain Goats – Ethiopians (Guitar)

    C   Cmaj7   Fmaj7   Fmaj7b5   F   Am   G
e|--0-----0-------0--------0------1----0---3----|
B|--1-----0-------1--------0------1----1---3----|
G|--0-----0-------2--------2------2----2---0----|
D|--2-----2-------3--------3------3----2---0----|
A|--3-----3-------x--------x------3----0---2----|
E|--x-----x-------x--------x------1----x---3----|

Fmaj7 Fmaj7b5 x4
repeat twice

C                                 F
Window mounted air conditioning unit,

Am                       G
      Humming like a hive.

C                                  F
We want to send postcards to the friends we used to have,

          Am           G              F              G
Rub their noses in the ugly fact that we are still alive,

          F    G
And we play,

             C    Am
Lovers reggae,

     F           G
On accordion and banjo,

F                    G
When the moon is high.

       F  G            C   Am
And we lie on the floor,

       F              G
Get suspicious of the people

       F                      G
Who've just moved in next door.

C                              F
    The bad taste in our mouths,

                       C
The twinkle in your eye

                      F
Good things never last

G
Bad things never die.

C                                 F
Wind chime from Tahiti that we found down at the auction,

Am                       G
Tolls its minor chord.

C                                  F
And I can't think of one thing in this whole wide blessed world,

               Am              G             F                 G
That's more dangerous and frightening, than you when you get bored.

          F    G
And we go though,

          C    Am
Scads of money.

F           G
Don't know where it comes from,

F           G
Don't know where it goes.

       F  G            C   Am
And we stare, out the window

  F              G
See the poison flowers the neighbours grow,

  F              G
Sprouting up in nice neat rows.

C                              F
The swelling in our limbs,

                       C
The twinkle in your eye,

                      F
Good things never last,

G
Bad things never die.